Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

No social stability without individual stability.

Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?